Flume won best live act and best album at the 2013 inthemix awards. Photo: Ashley Mar

Producer-DJs from Sydney (Harley ‘‘Flume’’ Streten), Melbourne (Will Sparks) and the Gold Coast (the Stafford Brothers) proved the Australian electronic dance music scene is thriving all around the country, sharing among them the top honours at this year’s inthemix Awards.

The event, which celebrates the year in domestic EDM a fair bit earlier than your average such ceremony, took place at Doltone House in Pyrmont on Thursday evening.

After coming second in the breakthrough-artist category last year, electronica wunderkind Flume won the industry-voted gongs for best album, for his exquisite eponymous debut, and best live act for his dazzling Infinity Prism tour.

The Stafford Brothers (Matt left, and Chris) were voted Australia's favourite DJs by the public.

Meanwhile Sparks, a pioneer of the rising EDM movement known as ‘‘the Melbourne Sound’’, not only beat indie darlings Jagwar Ma to this year’s breakthrough-artist award, he came out of seemingly nowhere to debut at No 2 in the public-voted list of Australia’s 50 best DJs – which was topped by the Stafford Brothers for the third consecutive year.

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Last year’s winner of the ‘‘most influential person in dance music’’ category, Bundaberg’s Tommy Trash, won best track/remix for Reload, his collaboration with Swedish House Mafioso Sebastian Ingrosso, but the title Trash claimed in 2012 was not awarded to anyone this year. In its place was a tribute to Adrian ‘‘Ajax’’ Thomas, the man twice voted Australia’s best DJ who was killed in a traffic accident in February.

In NSW it was a good night for Timmy Trumpet, who was voted the state’s best DJ (and came third overall nationally), and Pacha at Ivy, which was named best club night.

And the touring event Stereosonic had two reasons to be very cheerful: not only was it named favourite major festival over Future Music for the second year running, the headliner of the next Stereosonic, Dutch trance titan Armin van Buuren, beat Avicii and Daft Punk to the title of favourite international artist.

The ITM50 has always been about who spams the most forums/facebook/twitter begging people to vote for them. While there are some pretty good DJs on the list they do not nessicarily represent the best that are out there.